Help reading two words

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:02 pm

Hi everyone,

Just posted a birth OPR for George Clerihue. There are two words which I can't read: First line, the small word just before Wright and last line, the word after Peter Marischal.

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1788

Thanks,

Carol

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:22 pm

speleobat2 wrote:Hi everyone,

Just posted a birth OPR for George Clerihue. There are two words which I can't read: First line, the small word just before Wright and last line, the word after Peter Marischal.

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1788

Thanks,

Carol

Hi Carol,

The word after Peter's name is Wright.

Not quite sure about the one before George's occupation. It looks like it starts with an S. Looks more like an abbreviation.

Regards,
Annette

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:13 pm

Annette, you're good! I looked and looked at that and didn't see "wright".

How about "ship" for the first little word?

This OPR has been sitting in my "Now you see them, Now you don't" file for a long time. My 2x great grandfather was George Clerihew born around 1805. I've never found his parents or birth OPR. He just appears marrying Sophia Chalmers in 1829.

At the same time George Clerihue and Mary Shipway just appear in Aberdeen having baby George in 1803--the perfect time to be my 2x great grandfather--except then all three disappear from the records!!!

After over two years, I still can't confirm who my 2x's parents were so I'm stuck and rechecking the files... Maybe someday!

Carol

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:29 pm

It looks to me like Sqr short for Square Wright. I have one of those tucked away, but I'm still not sure what he made!

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:36 pm

Thanks Wilma,

I googled square wright and found this on rootsweb: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/rea ... 1203005281

Looks like he may have done detail work like making furniture or framing for buildings etc.

Carol

Ann In the UK · Post by **Ann In the UK** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:37 pm

Just putting my twopenneth in.

I'd agree with wright. But I don't think that's ship before it. I think it's sqr, short for square. I think he was a square wright, which I believe may have been a carpenter.

Ann In the UK · Post by **Ann In the UK** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:38 pm

God, you have to be quick round these parts, don'tcha!

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:54 pm

Ann,

Happens once in a while--to me anyway! Usually, I'm the slow coach.

This is getting more interesting though. There were several wrights in my Clerihew family and my great grandfather was a pattern maker for a foundry in Aberdeen--2x worked in a brewery in Inverury for the first ten years of married life, then was a fireman, I think at a foundry in Aberdeen.

Peter Marischal from the birth OPR was listed in The Directory for the City of Aberdeen 1824 at an address in Aberdeen--Windmillbrae--which looks like it was close to Summer Street where my family lived.

Now, if I could just find the one piece of paper to link them all. I have never found my 2x great grandfather's death certificate even though he was shown as living on his daughter's marriage certificate in 1857.

Back to the hunt!

Carol

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:57 pm

WilmaM wrote:It looks to me like Sqr short for Square Wright. I have one of those tucked away, but I'm still not sure what he made!

Sqr was my first thought Wilma but had never heard of it before.

Regards,
Annette

Ann In the UK · Post by **Ann In the UK** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:12 pm

You lucky thing - I usually put query in to these things then get nothing back, ever!

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